Foundation of Boehringer's residence with the Baton Rouge Academy African American school in distance [a brick structure erected in 1906 on 16th Street by the Fourth District Baptist Association]. Located on Goldenrod Avenue (now Park Blvd.) Baton...
Residence of Louis Wax with the Baton Rouge Academy African American school in distance [a brick structure erected in 1906 on 16th Street by the Fourth District Baptist Association]. Date: ca. 1912. b/w photograph. Gift of Camille Cazedessus.
Typical school scene during Fire Prevention Week was the fire drill, conducted in every school in the Parish. Here, girls from St. Joseph's Academy evacuate the school in a rapid and orderly fashion. Original located in the 1955 Fire Week...